[LU-6387] Add Power8 support to Lustre

• Type: New Feature
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.12.0
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.8.0
• Labels: patch
• Environment: IBM Power8 hardware. Currently Ubuntu and later RHEL7.1 support will be added to this platform.
• Assignee: James A Simmons
• Reporter: James A Simmons

Description

Currently working with Power8 client nodes running Ubuntu with a 3.13 kernel. Later the nodes will be moved to RHEL7.1 as support improves.
Here the work will be pushed to be able to build and run lustre in such an
environment.

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-8485 workqueue overflows with mlx5 on power8 platforms.
• is related to: LU-8693 ko2iblnd recieving IB_WC_MW_BIND_ERR errors.
• is related to: LU-10752 Lustre rpm build issues due to improper lsvcgss packaging
• is related to: LU-11453 sanity test 184a: Basic layout swap panics on Power8
• is related to: LU-6284 FLD read is not swabbed correctly
• is related to: LU-8117 lustre-ppc fails to build on ppc64 el7
• is related to: LU-8776 fix weird inline definitions
• is related to: LU-11246 New lustre e2fsprogs 1.44 issues
• is related to: LU-11278 LNet failures on Power8
• is related to: LU-7321 LustreError: 61814:0:(ldlm_lockd.c:692:ldlm_handle_ast_error()) ### client (nid 172.20.17.9@o2ib500) returned -5 from glimpse AST
• is related to: LU-8567 mdc_reint.c:57:mdc_reint()) error in handling -17 encountered on power8 node
• is related to: LU-12419 ppc64le: "LNetError: RDMA has too many fragments for peer_ni" when reading two files
• is related to: LU-11200 Centos 8 arm64 server support
• is related to: LU-11440 Make e2fsprogs-1.44.3-wc1 release
• is related to: LU-10300 Can the Lustre 2.10.x clients support 64K kernel page?
• is related to: LU-10157 LNET_MAX_IOV hard coded to 256
• is related to: LU-8700 dkms fails to build lustre on Power8 due to llite_loop missing